Susan Strayer, HRExaminer Editorial Advisory Board Member. From career coaching to recruiting strategy to social media, Susan has experience with in-house corporate HR and recruiting leadership roles, as a Fortune 500 consultant, and as a career and brand coach. Full Bio » Long Term Performance Management. by Susan Strayer. It’s about the spin. But I don’t want to perpetuate bad recruiting.

Great article today at HR Magazine in the UK, entitled, “ Are HR Management Courses Preparing Students to be the People Strategy Stars of the Future ?” I encourage you to read it. We have long been poking around the idea that HR leaders must develop a strong business focus to be able to add value to their organizations. And, it appears UK universities are responding to this trend. They should.

I've lived in the greater Rochester, NY area for over a decade, and while not my 'real' hometown, this mid-sized Western New York city has certainly has become my adopted hometown. Rochester's situation and story in some ways is also being told and played out in places like Buffalo, Cleveland, Toledo, and others. Vintage Kodak Ad - 1920s. For a long, long time Kodak was Rochester and vice versa.

Staffing professionals are all over the board as to whether Facebook has any relevance to their business. One will say nah it’s just for sharing pictures of the kids, another will say she finds her best candidates there. Personally I’ve recruited some of our top employees via relationships on Facebook, so my bias is to consider it an important business tool. Either way, there are three Facebook trends that will increasingly nudge out marginal network players like LinkedIn and make the service increasingly compelling for recruiters. TimeLine. Open-Graph Expansion. The Facebook IPO.

Are you a great instructional designer looking for an exciting new opportunity? Would you like to help design cutting-edge, market leading instructional content for a global audience? Are you. Bersin & Associates, Leading Research and Advisory Services in Enterprise Learning and Talent Management. Enterprise Learning
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Imagine the anxiety levels of some one who is desperate to find work and required to sift through a database of a half million job offerings. The combination of tedious work and the desire to get something done is a standard part of the Job Hunter’s Mindset. The Internet amplifies the intensity significantly. Like cramming for a math final after skipping the class all semester, the active job hunter is faced with a sea of conflicting number one priorities, often without the resources required to effectively fill in all of the blanks. It’s extremely Pavlovian. HRExaminer
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Unemployment numbers good for staffers. Investopedia]. The onetime operator of a Minneapolis temporary-employment agency, Olen Staff Co., under suspicion for hiring illegal immigrants has admitted to cheating the federal government out of more than $425,000 in payroll deductions. Doris Ruiz pleaded guilty in federal court in St. Paul this week to failing to pay more than $150,000 in payroll taxes and another $276,987 to cover the employer’s share of FICA taxes, which fund Social Security and Medicare, from 2005 through 2007. The Star Tribune]. The Salt Lake Tribune]. TC Palm]. The U.S.
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